Author: Dan Ellwein
Date: 05:05:10 09/11/00
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On September 10, 2000 at 11:52:56, Mike S. wrote: >On September 10, 2000 at 06:55:49, Aaron Tay wrote: > >>(...) And of course on one computer you get the >>"ponder problem" surfaceing. > >Yes, it would be useful to have a ponder switch outside of the personality >profile. I'd also like to have the hash size setting under a simple menu item >better, rather than to have to create various personalities for such standard >settings. This is uncomfortable. > >But the "ponder problem" itself remains to be one of the worst, not only for >Chessmaster. Many computer chess newbies (presumably 99% of them) are not aware >of 1. pondering itself, and 2. that the ressources may not be shared equally, >when a match on one computer is being played. Mike with computers being so inexpensive these days... at ebay you can get a complete computer system for around 500 dollars... wouldn't this 'ponder problem' be settled by simple playing each chess program on its own computer... regards pilgrimdan > >This could be avoided, if the program's docs would inform the customers much >more clearly about this issue. The companies are responsible themselves, if >non-informed users produce nonsense results from unequal comparison. You can't >expect every customer to be a computer chess expert. Of course, programs which >grab most of a computer's resources, have an advantage from this situation. > >Other ideas would be different "operation modi", which would for example disable >the permanent brain automatically in the mode "prog-prog match by task switching >on one computer" - or a short automatic performance check sometimes in between, >which would be compared with a benchmark result the user once had to generate >under "clean" conditions before. There could be a warning, if the performance >would be <95% of that benchmark, and info for the user that he should do >something about that with detailed advice could be given. > >But it won't be done, and next year we could discuss the very same problem >again. If somebody wants to discuss it anyway. I don't think so. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl
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